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The following will was taken frow the records of Notorial Archives, New Orleans, Acts of
Pedro Pedesclaux No. 6: 264. It was translated by wrs. wartha (wissy) Bernhofen, who holds a
wasters degree in Spanish. Where the words were either too blurred or written too indistinctly
it was iwpossible to determine with any degree of accuracy what the writer intended. Such words
are indicated by blank spaces.
"Testament:
In the name of God Almighty who lives without beginning and reigns without end Amen. Let it
be known whoever this letter of testament and last will sees as I, Juan Bauptista Duchassin,
native of Bayonne in the kingdom of France, Province of Labourd and of the neighborhood of
Acros, legitimate son of the legitimate marriage of Juan Bauptista DuChassin and of Juana
Darigues, both deceased and natives of the referred city of Bayonne, be in sound in my whole
judgements, memories, and native understanding, which God our father has seen fit to give me,
believing as firmly I believe in the high and soverign mystery of the sacred Trinity, Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit, three persons truly distinct and one true essence, and in the Incarnation
of the divine Being made man for our remedy (benefit) in the pure womb (this actually says: in
the very entrails, which means the innermost part of her being) of the Virgin Mary, Our Lady,
passion and death, and in the other articles and mysteries that holds, believes, predicts,
confesses, and teaches our Holy Mother the Church, Catholic, Apostilic of Rome, reigned and
governed by the Holy Spirit, under whose faith and belief I have lived and protest (intend) to do
so until death, fearing death which is natural to all creatures, its hour unsure preparing that
__________ _____________ ____________ (these three words are unclear but they appear to say
"a place of retreat to deny a drove of beasts of burden—a stampede) I want to wake my
testament and for its better direction I invoke through my Advocate to the Soverign Queen of the
Angels, Mary Most Holy, Our lady, that she intercede for we with her Precious Son pardon the
gravity of my faults and place my soul on the road to salvation with her powerful supplication
and divine invocation, I order with the following form:
First, I deliver my soul to the same God and walk in the same place harmonious belief and
redeemed with the price and infinite value of His Precious Blood, passion, and death, I ask

The following will was taken frow the records of Notorial Archives, New Orleans, Acts of
Pedro Pedesclaux No. 6: 264. It was translated by wrs. wartha (wissy) Bernhofen, who holds a
wasters degree in Spanish. Where the words were either too blurred or written too indistinctly
it was iwpossible to determine with any degree of accuracy what the writer intended. Such words
are indicated by blank spaces.
"Testament:
In the name of God Almighty who lives without beginning and reigns without end Amen. Let it
be known whoever this letter of testament and last will sees as I, Juan Bauptista Duchassin,
native of Bayonne in the kingdom of France, Province of Labourd and of the neighborhood of
Acros, legitimate son of the legitimate marriage of Juan Bauptista DuChassin and of Juana
Darigues, both deceased and natives of the referred city of Bayonne, be in sound in my whole
judgements, memories, and native understanding, which God our father has seen fit to give me,
believing as firmly I believe in the high and soverign mystery of the sacred Trinity, Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit, three persons truly distinct and one true essence, and in the Incarnation
of the divine Being made man for our remedy (benefit) in the pure womb (this actually says: in
the very entrails, which means the innermost part of her being) of the Virgin Mary, Our Lady,
passion and death, and in the other articles and mysteries that holds, believes, predicts,
confesses, and teaches our Holy Mother the Church, Catholic, Apostilic of Rome, reigned and
governed by the Holy Spirit, under whose faith and belief I have lived and protest (intend) to do
so until death, fearing death which is natural to all creatures, its hour unsure preparing that
__________ _____________ ____________ (these three words are unclear but they appear to say
"a place of retreat to deny a drove of beasts of burden—a stampede) I want to wake my
testament and for its better direction I invoke through my Advocate to the Soverign Queen of the
Angels, Mary Most Holy, Our lady, that she intercede for we with her Precious Son pardon the
gravity of my faults and place my soul on the road to salvation with her powerful supplication
and divine invocation, I order with the following form:
First, I deliver my soul to the same God and walk in the same place harmonious belief and
redeemed with the price and infinite value of His Precious Blood, passion, and death, I ask